Iron County register., 1887-12-22

THE new Methodist Episcopal hospital,
founded by George ]. Seney, was formally
dedicated by appropriate services in
Brooklyn on the 14th, and despite the in
clement weather there was large and
apprec 'ative audience present.
THE first train over the Minneapolis,
Sault Ste. Marie G. Atlantic railroad,
which left Minneapolis ON the 14th, ar
rived at Sault Ste. Marie on the afternoon
of the 10Th, having as passengers Hon. w.
ID. Washburn, president of the road, and
number of business men of MINNEAPOLIS.
The international bridge is finished and
connection with the sea- board completed.
GOVERNOR BoDLEY, of Maine, died at
his home in Hallowell, on the 18th. S. s.
Marble, president of the State Senate,
will be his successor
The Interstate Commission gave a
hearing on the 18th in the case of VIM. II.
Heard, colored minister, living in
Charleston, S. c., who complains that the
Georgia Railroad Company, June Is, 1887,
compelled him to ride in a coach of in
ferior accommodations, although he had a
frst-class ticket.
JOHN w. CHAMBERLAIN was convicted
in the United States District Court at st.
Louis, on the 10th, of election frauds.
A DISASTROUS freight-train collision oc-
CURED near Mechanicsville, Ia, ON the
10Th, thirty box cars being demolished
and brakeman killed.
GEORGE AND JOHN REEVES, who, with
their father, killed two deputy sheriffs in
Indiana in 1885, were captured on the
10th in Tennessee.
HE new growth discovered in the
throa. of the Crown Prince of Germany
is not of a cancerous nature.
THURSTON LEE was hanged at Bakers
field, Cal, on the 18th. for the murder of
John Smith, in March, 1883.
IT is learned that the scouting party
sent to Cienje, Ariz., in search of the
Bernal bandits, found three men, sup
posed to belong to that band, near Cha
Gala, and shot them.
CHESTER BELLOWS was hanged at
Charles City, Ia, ON the 10Th, for the mur
der of his niece, Alice Waterman. He
had to be supported to the gallows, and
as the rope was placed around his neck,
he exclaimed three times: "Rease
DON'T"
THE Newfoundland Legislature has
passed an act, which has received royal
assent, forbidding the catching or sale of
bait to foreign fishermen.
AT Kenton, o., the 10th, Charles
Thomas, worthless young fellow, stabbed
to death his niece, Miss Briggs, and
seriously cut his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Briggs. The murder grew out of a family
quarrel, which has been brewing for some
time.
In boring an artesian we'll in Fairview,
six miles from Santa Anna, Cal, on the
10Th, natural gas struck in large
quantities. The boring is still in progress
and the gas pressure is increasing.
A BILL has been introduced in the Ger
man Reichstag for the expulsion from
Germany of all persons who belong to
Socialistic societies prohibited by law.
AN old, uusat.sfied mortgage, dated
1S40, has been found, which affects the
title to about one-sixth of the real state
of Shamokin, Pa. The amount of the
mortgage was originally $4,000. The
sheriff has officially notified the land
holders that lie will sell the property De-
cember 80.
A SEMI-oFFICIAL report says Russia
neither desires nor fears war. In other
words, the Car is now ready for what he
evidently considers inevitable.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made at the
Treasury Department for the payment on
January /, next, of SS,414, $50 interest on
United States bonds and Pacific railroad
bonds. This is in addition to $S4S, 452 in
terest which would have fallen due on
that date, but which has been prepaid
with rebate, under the terms of depart.
ment circular No 80.
A coy named John Ogden, twelve years
old, living in Nebraska City, Neb., was
dragged to death by a cow on the 10Th.
He was driving the COW to the stable, and
tied one end of the rope around his body.
The COW ran away and dragged the boy
over stony road, going half mile be-
fore it was stopped.
The explosion of an eighty horse power
boiler in the Edison Electric Company's
works at West Chester, Pa, the 18th,
caused the death of five persons and the
injury of three others. The boiler was
lifted from the foundations and propelled
thirty feet, passing through the base of a
ninety-foot high stack, which instantly
fell.
MIR. N. NJ. BELL, superintendent of for
eign mails, went to New York on the 10Th
to meet Mr. MacLellan, Postmaster Gen
eral of Canada, for the purpose of nego- |
tiatng a parcel post convention between
the United States and Canada, similar to
those recently put in operation between
this country, Jamaica, Mexico and Ber-
muda.